Day 4 - Elva Card

Today we saw the upside and the downside of Skype!  It was amazing to be able to talk to teachers in India!  But the technical problems with the Egyptian connection showed the limitations.

I really enjoyed the presentation about China.  I am fascinated with Chinese history and the question of where China is headed.  I got to go to China once, and I remember so clearly when the guide met us at the airport, he said, "Well, we're not really Communist any more, but we're not Capitalist.  We're trying to figure it out."  We got to visit a "traditional" home of a retired Chinese Army captain in Beijing.  It was in the hutongs, old style, not as nice as any of us have.  I thought, as I looked at the old man, just how much the world has changed.  I was married for twenty some years to an Air Force officer.  Had war come he might have bombed the place, yet there I sat, feeling sorry for a retired officer whose financial status had reduced him to having tourists troop through his house.